The former Muay Thai and women’s MMA fighter became known for her divisive political and social justice opinions. The situation began with a Tweet in which Carano allegedly mocked those individuals who choose to put their personal gender pronouns in their social media biographies
Regarding the situation, Carano recently told former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss:
“Earlier on last year before The Mandalorian came out, they wanted me to use their exact wording for an apology over pronoun usage.”
The actress continued, “I declined and offered a statement in my own words. I made clear I wanted nothing to do with mocking the transgender community, and was just drawing attention to the abuse of the mob in forcing people to put pronouns in their bio.”
Finally, just ahead of last week’s firing announcement, things came to a head when Carano posted an image that many viewed as anti-Semitic. Lucasfilm and Disney echoed this sentiment.
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
In the Weiss interview, Carano, whose father is ex-NFL quarterback Glenn Carano, shared that she wasn’t told she was fired until the story broke on the internet — nobody from Lucasfilm or The Walt Disney Company called or texted her the information. The ex-Star Wars actress said:
“I found out through social media, like everyone else, that I had been fired.”
At this point, Gina Carano’s Cara Dune has an extremely uncertain future within the Star Wars franchise. Favreau created the character specifically for Carano, with the ultimate intention of giving her a spinoff series within The Mandalorian saga.
Now that Carano has been let go, there has been no official word on what is happening with that particular spinoff, Rangers of the New Republic. The series was set to air concurrently with The Mandalorian Season 3 and another spinoff, Ahsoka, that is set to feature Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano.
The Star Wars fan base is also waiting for additional casting news. At this time, only Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin, Temuera Morrison’s Boba Fett, Ming-Na Wen’s Fennec Shand, and Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano have been confirmed.
Katee Sackhoff’s Bo-Katan Kryze and her Nite Owl warriors — Koska Reeves played by Sasha Banks and Axe Woves played by Simon Kassianides — are also rumored to return to complete the Darksaber story, but nothing has been officially announced.
Stay tuned to Inside the Magic for the latest details about the upcoming season of The Mandalorian and all of its spinoffs — Rangers of the New Republic, Ahsoka, and The Book of Boba Fett.
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